Disability treaty needs your support!
Thousands urge Senators to vote YES on the CRPD!
In December, the U.S. came close--really close--to ratifying the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Five Senators who voted 'No' stood.......

According to Muhammed Rasyid, an Education Chief in South Sumatra, virginity tests "protect children from prostitution and free sex." Mr Rasyid's plans would require young women aged from 16 to 19 to have their hymen checked every year until graduation.

Thanks to Republican Gov. Susana Martinez, women seeking state assistance for babies resulting from rape will soon have to find a way to prove the pregnancy resulted from a sexual assault, narrowing the definition of rape in New Mexico to an almost -->

The Navajo Nation is expected to lose internet access today thanks to bureaucracy. Thousands of Native American security forces, students and libraries depend on this access as do those with no phones. Gates funded their original net access - do it again!

We all have issues that inflame or engender passion within us. The issue of beating or even hitting children and animals is top on my list. Those who must "hit" to teach do not deserve the right to have children or pets.

Officials at a Texas public school have no right to force a Native American elementary school student to cut his hair, which he wears long for religious reasons, says Americans United for Separation of Church and State...

JAMESTOWN, Tenn. (AP) -- Cory Holliday almost didn't see the stick figure painted on the sandstone. His first impression was that it was a clever fake.
A cave specialist for the Tennessee chapter of The Nature Conservancy, Holliday was searching for...